Barton Lewis

USA | Filmmaker

General data

City

Brooklyn

Country

USA

Websites

Web site

www.bartonlewisfilm.com

About

Short CV

Barton Lewis was born into a family of artists and teachers in Urbana, Illinois, and started making films in the 4th grade after his parents gave him a Super 8 movie camera. After graduating high school from the North Carolina School of the Arts he moved to New York where he received a B.M. from The Juilliard School, studying music composition with Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt. He then went on to receive a B.A. in English literature from Columbia University.
Barton briefly pursued a career in musical theater after college, but devoted himself to filmmaking full-time in the 1990s. His films deal with natural light and its interaction with various materials and elements, such as metal, wood and water, and with the urban industrial landscape. Public screenings of his works include the following:
Paris, 23 Mar 2013-27 Apr 2013: a building screened at Galerie White Project in the show "Utopie distribuée", part of the STREETVIDEOART series organized by Milan Atanaskovic.

Paris, 19 Jul 2012 and 20 Oct-8 Nov 2012: a building screened on the rue Quincampoix during StreeTVideOart, an international art action consisting of a number presentations of emerging video art in an urban context, organized and presented by Art TV and then at the Larcade Gallery in Paris in October and November;

Portland, OR, May 26, 2012: East River Pavilion, Upper East Side, New York screened at the Portland Experimental Film Festival;

New York City, December-January 2011/2012: stills from East River Pavilion, Upper East Side, New York City selected for an online exhibit curated by Tracy Fitzpatrick (curator, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY) in the Curate NYC competition;

New York City, June 19, 2010: one-man show at Millennium Film Workshop.